MPE starter synth

touch

One pure tone, played by every gesture.

Buy once, own it. Every update free, forever.

EU VAT included. 14-day money-back. Single-user license covers all your own machines.

What it does

One voice. One pure tone. Every gesture.

Touch is the smallest possible MPE synth. One oscillator with selectable waveforms (sine, triangle, saw, square), an asymmetric phase bend that turns clean shapes into growling ones, a soft saturator, ADSR, a mono toggle for the lead patches. That's the whole signal path.

Per-note unison stacks one to eight oscillators inside every key you play, each detuned and panned across the stereo field. Pressure widens the stereo image of each held voice independently, so a chord breathes outward as you lean in. A single keypress can be a whisper or a chorus.

The point of a synth this small isn't what it can do at the dial - it's what it makes you do with your hands. Five MPE modulation rings route your fingers into drive, bend, attack speed, chord-spread detune, and a release-velocity lift flare. The keyboard becomes the patch.

MPE routing

Five rings, all per-finger.

Each ring sets how strongly its MPE source modulates its destination. Direction is hardwired so the gestures stay musical at any depth.

Pressure → drive

Lean into a note for grit; lift for a clean tone. Independent per voice.

Slide → bend

The Y-axis under your finger walks the phase bend from clean to asymmetric.

Velocity → attack

Strike harder for a faster onset. Captured at note-on; sets the voice's attack speed for the life of the note.

Pressure → detune

Spreads the held chord across a stable per-channel detune. Soft chord, soft spread; hard chord, wide spread.

Release → lift flare

Note-off velocity drives a transient bend + drive flare on the way out. Soft releases bloom; sharp releases snap.

See it

The plugin, in motion.

Touch main UI on the Init preset with the wave preview and ADSR envelope drawing per-voice curves under demo MPE — The wave

Touch preset browser open showing the factory bank across Bass, Lead, Pad, Pluck, Keys, FX and Drone categories — Twenty-seven presets

Touch on the Pad/Stratus preset showing the wider stereo width and the chord-spread detune across held voices — Pads, leads, drones

Made to play with

Features.

Sine, triangle, saw, square oscillator
Asymmetric phase bend
Per-note unison (1-8 voices) with within-note detune
Pressure-driven stereo width per voice
Soft drive saturator
ADSR + mono toggle
Five MPE modulation rings
Per-voice MPE illumination
VST3 · AU · macOS (M1+)

Requirements

What it runs on, today.

Quiver plugins are designed MPE-first and tested in real workflows before they ship. The supported set is deliberately narrow right now so every shipped plugin works the way the page describes. Wider coverage comes as each host gets a full pass.

OS support

macOS on Apple Silicon (M1 or newer), VST3 and AU. Windows 10 or later, VST3, 64-bit. Intel Macs are not yet supported.

Tested in

Ableton Live 12, Bitwig Studio, Reaper, and Logic Pro. Other MPE-aware VST3 / AU hosts should work.

Controllers

Designed for Osmose, Push 3, Seaboard, LinnStrument, Continuum. Plays as a complete static patch on any MIDI keyboard; the per-finger gestural surface unlocks the day an MPE controller arrives.

Price

€50. The price is the price.

Touch is the starter the rest of the catalogue is measured against. It's small on purpose - one signal path, five rings, every dial played by hand. Try it free for 14 days. Buy once and every update is yours, forever - no v2 upgrade tax, no sales, ever.

Buy - €50

Buy once, own it. Every update free, forever.

EU VAT included. 14-day money-back. Single-user license covers all your own machines.

v1.0.0 released March 12, 2026